Our 10th expedition aboard the Psychonautilus has begun. In this expedition we get a glimpse of the drama on board. As we peer through a multidimensional window into the life of the research team journeying throughout the multiverse piloting this very unique vessel. Then we dive into the first half of a two part episode with our guest John Lash. John is the author of: Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief Quest for the Zodiac: The Cosmic Code Beyond Astrology Tai Chi Journey He is a Gnostic scholar, a comparative mythologist, astrologer and a true Psychonaut. I had a fantastic time speaking with John. We talk about natural psychonatics about the origin and purpose of what we call the plant teachers. Then we look into the past at the genesis of the modern psychonautic revolution from the arrival of LSD in the 40's and then into the 1960's. This is just the first half and in the second we dive much deeper into the nature of the mystical experience. John talks of the organic light, of oceanic consciousness and much, much more. This part is coming very soon I promise you wont have to wait long. . You can find an incredible amount of work by John Lash from following these links: http://www.metahistory.org/ http://www.futureprimitive.org/NIHI.html http://www.futureprimitive.org/stars.php http://www.futureprimitive.org/ http://www.futureprimitive.org/randr.php http://www.futureprimitive.org/interviews/ Also thanks to James Sanger for this incredible music you have been hearing a lot of on this show. He has agreed to come on the show and explain more about this musical scale that he has been working with. I am really looking forward to that. Here is a bit he recently emailed me about about it: I have been using a new musical scaling system called the Lucy scale since it's inception around ten years ago .I suppose it is no longer a new musical scaling system as it has been around for a while, but it is new to modern music I suppose. Originally the idea was thought up by John Harrison to use Pi to create a scaling system, he was a genius, ahead of his time. He made clocks so accurate that you could take one of his clocks on a sea voyage to Jamaica and it could only lose a few minutes at a time when all the other makers clocks would lose 15 minutes in one day ! He also won the 'kings prize' for discovering a workable way of working out longitude at sea. The scale is called 'The Lucy scale' as it was Charles Lucy who rediscovered Harrison's work after receiving copies of an anonymously sent copy of a Harrison manuscript. http://lucytune.com http://lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_04.html http://www.myspace.com/jamessanger Enjoy the ride, Adam Oh yea I almost forgot... We have a forum now. So come on over and join in. Let your thoughts be known. Its still under construction and the look of it is only temporary as I will be working hard to make it easy on the eyes and a forum fit for psychonauts: http://psychonautilus.madmooseforum.com/